Given this trend, GPT 5 or 6 will be trained on a majority of content from its previous versions, modeling them instead of the expect full range of language. Researchers have already tested the outcome of a model-in-loop with pictures, it was not pretty.
You mean Microsoft will recoup the cost of unbundling by charging more per product compared to the previous bundle, given that it’s now different products?
'cause at work the powers that be has gone all-in on MS and this decision won’t change a bit their “strategy”.
Each and every line of code you write is a liability. Even more so when you wrote it for someone else. You must always be able to rebuild it from source, at least as long as your client expect the software to work. If you feel it’s not worth it, you probably low-balled the contract. If you don’t want to maintain code, have the client pay a yearly maintenance fee, give the code and the responsibility to maintain it to your client at the end of development, or add a time limit to it’s support.
There’s no “maintenance mode” software: either it’s in use and must be kept updated with regard to it’s execution environment, or it’s not used anymore and can be erased and forgotten. Doing differently opens too much security issues, which shouldn’t be acceptable for us all as a trade.
Subjective take: there’s worse than FreeCAD - sure it’s a bit “old school” but it’s bearable. O. The other hand, the solver has crashed on me so many times… The workbench way of doing things requires some time to get usdmed to, sure, but a crashing solver is far worse.
That’s a lot of words for “I’m too lazy to master the most essential tool of my professional life and keep it updated to my requirements”.
If you don’t want to do it, feel free to pay an Ubuntu support subscription, open a ticket, and get back to work. As you said: you should be working on your problem instead of whining. Or maybe you earn more whining?
There’s a saying that goes like that: “To a bad workman, there’s always bad tools.”
EOL of version 7 is next year in June, you got a nice pile of work here!
And *nix shells a perfect example of the KISS principle.
On behalf of garbage, I loudly protest on this attempt to assimilate it to Powershell.
You can add support contract requirements for some pieces of software coming from vendors with so little confidence in their product that they’re rather have it run on an outdated dependencies environnement. A side effect of the logic you talked about, applied to software vendors.
Yet again an example of (for some, not-so) old, control-freak farts that just don’t understand the world they live in. The law proposal is entitled “Regulation of digital space”. As if a country could regulate an international network.
Sometimes I’m really ashamed of our politicians.
A process owned by any user will be able to exploit a userspace vulnerability, whatever this user is. Selinux, chroot, cgroups/containerization add a layer of protection to this, but any vulnerability that bypass these will be as exploitable from nobody as from any other local user. It will protect a user files from some access attempts but will fail to prevent any serious attack. And as usual when it comes to security, a false sense of security is worse than no security at all.
Remember that some exploits exist that can climb outside of a full-blown virtual machine to the virtualisation host, finding a user escalation vulnerability is even more likely.
The only real protection is an up-to-date system, sane user behavior and maybe a little bit of paranoia.